Solidarity between survivor and trade union activists: organising for democratic alliances by Mick McKeown - a presentation from the symposium on social movements and their contributions to sociological knowledge on mental health at the University of Wolverhampton. Held on 13 June 2014.

1. Solidarity between
survivor and trade union
activists: organising for
democratic alliances
Mick McKeown
University of Central Lancashire

2. Legitimacy crises

3. Disadvantage and disillusionment

4. Survivor & disability movements

5. Hollowed out unions?

6. Co-option and incorporation?

7. Reciprocal community unionism

8. Popular protest

9. Defending services

10. Asymmetrical solidarity

11. Unsettled and unsettling relations

12. Reciprocal democratic relations
open up possibility for reframing
the politics of mental health

13. The quality of communicative
space is crucial

14. Wild publics

15. Paradoxical spaces

16. Alternative forms of support

17. Civic democratic renewal

18. Workplace democracy

19. The victory of humanity: a
socialised and organised
humanity.
The achievement of this kindly and
efficacious condition, for all patients and
all societies, is the central problem of
psychiatric care. It is also the central
problem of social liberation.
Peter Sedgwick (1982) - Psychopolitics